<div dir="ltr"><a href="https://www.quantamagazine.org/before-brains-mechanics-may-have-ruled-animal-behavior-20220316/">https://www.quantamagazine.org/before-brains-mechanics-may-have-ruled-animal-behavior-20220316/</a> had to pop up a few times before I paid attention.  <i>Tricoplax adhaerens</i> is a multicellular organism which coordinates multicellular motility through mechanical interactions between cilia.<div><br><div><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02930">https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02930</a> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Excitable mechanics embodied in a walking cilium</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><div><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02934">https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02934</a> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Ciliary flocking and emergent instabilities enable collective agility in a non-neuromuscular animal</span><br></div><div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><a href="https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02940">https://arxiv.org/abs/2107.02940</a> <span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">Mobile defects born from an energy cascade shape the locomotive behavior of a headless animal</span><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><div><br></div><div>I especially like the picture of Prakash wading in the tide pool to collect specimens.</div><div><br></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif">-- rec --</span></div><div><span style="color:rgb(0,0,0);font-family:"Lucida Grande",Helvetica,Arial,sans-serif"><br></span></div><br class="gmail-Apple-interchange-newline"></div></div></div></div>